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Record Group Number: 900000
Series/Collection Number: M81- 21
Creator: Boazio, Baptista.
Title, Dates: Saint Augustine map, 1589.
Amount: 2.00 item
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Biographical/Historical:     Italian cartographer Baptista Boazio worked in London from about 1585 to 1603, making maps to illustrate accounts of English expeditions and campaigns. He prepared a series of maps marking Sir Francis Drake's route for Walter Bigges' work on Drake's expedition to the West Indies, first published in 1588 (later editions followed).
Summary:     The collection contains an engraved, hand-colored map or view-plan by Baptista Boazio depicting Sir Francis Drake's attack on St. Augustine on May 28 and 29, 1586. The plan highlights Drake's Caribbean expedition in 1585 and 1586, and pictorially portrays how the English corsair captured and burned the fort and city of St. Augustine. The plan also includes an illustration of a dolphin that Boazio very likely copied from the drawings of English America by John White, a member of the 1585 Raleigh settlement of Virginia.

    Also included is "A Catalogue of the Library of John Jay Paul," Watertown (Columbia County), "principally works on American ethnology, mammalogy, ornithology, herpetology, and botany," Philadelphia, 1912. Paul was the owner of the map before his death.
Finding Aids: Box listing available. 0
Additional Physical Form: The Saint Augustine map has been digitized and is available on the Florida Memory web site: http://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/339332
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Ownership/Custodial History: Mrs. James R. Knott is the niece of John Jay Paul and inherited these items when he died.
Publication Note: Summaries and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes' West Indian voyage / by Walter Bigges, 1588.
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Electronic Records Access: https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/339332
Subject Access Fields: Drake, Francis, Sir, 1540?-1596
Saint Augustine (Fla.)
Florida History To 1821
Florida Maps --Early works to 1800
Added Entries Paul, John J.